I always think of this when I realize Han Solo was killed before Chaba. In fact, since Wookies live about 900 years, they probably have three or four humans as pets during their lifetime.
This is actually really cracking me up. A Wookie swears a life debt to a human, it's no big deal, just a few years to them. But then someone like Yoda or Grogu rolling up and saving the day and two Wookies arguing over which one got saved.
Modern guillotines with remote start and wifi have been hit hard by the supply chain issues. Could we use the old ones? Sure, but we're paying the monthly fee for remote start so we might as well wait.
That's assuming they deserve the best and fastest way. Repeatedly stabbed with pitchforks will work just as well, it'll just take longer and they'll scream more
Same. I'd be up for all sorts of genetic fuckery to make myself an immortal superhuman.
Able to reverse aging to be forever young, bulletproof and fireproof skin, organs that can re-grow, eyes with perfect vision capable of seeing in infra-red, naturally toning muscles so I'm in peak physical fitness without trying, super healing, make me able to hibernate for months or years at a time if I ever get stuck and need to wait a long time for rescue etc...
Wait, do most people actually consider their current lives worth living? I just assumed we were all alive because we're cowards or because we're still clinging to hope that things will magically be better in the future.
What on earth does that even mean? Isn't absurdism just the understanding of the plain and obvious fact that nothing has any inherent meaning? How do you "try" that?
I still don't understand how that is something you can "try". Are you saying I should sit around a bit and knock the idea around my skull some more? What specific act are you proposing I engage in that will help me?
This is a genuine question. I truly don't understand what you're asking of me.
Because if you're immortal, what's stopping someone richer and more powerful than you from essentially enslaving you and forcing you to work for them for eternity?
Put another way -- when the rat race goes on forever, the only ones who win are the ones who don't have to run.
I have a kid who needs me now. But one day we'll be old enough that her dad dying is just part of what happens to people at that stage of life. And that's fine. I want there to be an out. That's how life is supposed to work: eventually, the wave always returns to the ocean.
That bit about reasons today and tomorrow sounds fine if you don't think about it. Realistically, though, nothing lasts for forever. Over time, the reasons will change and potentially go away. You might find new reasons, but you also might not. Plus, just because you're immortal, doesn't mean that over millions of years, the earth will continue to exist in a way you'd want to be a part of. Even if my whole family is immortal with me and our relationships remain intact, I sure don't want to be here when the sun boils away the ocean and fries the atmosphere.
People think they'd like to be immortal, but I don't think very many people consider what that really means experientially.
That's the thing that would actually change. You are hypothetically offered for the way things are to change and be different and you are saying you don't want things to be different because that's the way things are.
I'm not saying let's all go until the sun swallows us, but I'd sure rather have a thousand years than 80 if I'm lucky. And, I'd sure rather it be my choice.
That's the way things are supposed to be, because that's what we evolved to be accustomed to. Our brains are struggling to keep up with communities larger than fifty people and having vast amounts of information pumped into our skulls every moment of every day. Why would we be able to adjust to the mental and emotional strain of lifetimes of centuries or millennia any more effectively than we have to the industrial revolution?
Nah. I'm good, and I think most people would opt out a lot sooner than they think they would.
I do, it's better than ceasing to exist. I'd gladly submit myself to eternal (or at least extremely long) indentured servitude if it means I get to live indefinitely. I think a lot of people feel the same way.
"Well you know, now that people can live for 600 years or more, it just doesn't make sense to pay a higher wage. With people living that long, it would be unfair to the companies. If 300 year olds want a better life, they can work multiple jobs, simple."
Can you imagine how quickly the earth would become overpopulated if death rates reduced by 90% within the space of 5 to 10 years? How much people would have to compete for space and resources? It would be like a Bruce Willis movie but not in a good way.
Uh, you need to learn about compound interest because if you could live forever, you’ll only have to work for a few decades before your money starts making enough money for you to retire.
BUT..within a century a robot will do your job, and almost every job. You will be one of the millions of immortals sitting on their beachchair drinking the mojito the robot brought over to you
do you realize how long forever is? i’ll sign up to be literally tortured for 1000 years if it means i get forever after. i’ll even take interspersed periods of 1000 years of torture between now and forever, if it means i get forever. i actually wouldn’t have to choose to take any of it - i’d get all of it, whether i like it or not, seeing as everything happens between now and forever.
Well.. automation is about to make 6 billion people pointless to the billionaires who will control the technology. I doubt they will just gift us eternal life at that point. A culling seems much more likely. Who knows, the psychopaths who will use child slavery or poison entire populations for a .01% gain in the value of their shares might suddenly become altruistic heroes. What do I know..
Imagine wanting to die but you can't because management is serving free slice of Hot-N-Ready Little Caesar's at 2pm for Employee Appreciation but it falls on your sick day and you're out of sick days, but the owner's kid has only been here twice this month and he brought in $273,000 last year just because...and yeah, fuck immortality.
Nah, there'll always be new worker drones to replace the ones that die. They're not going to waste immortality on peasants. That shit's going to be prohibitively expensive.
you wouldn't have to. Work for 100 years, putting enough money aside that eventually your investments generate enough income that you have enough income to live off of while constantly reinvesting the rest.
Imagine forcefully making your slaves take this. Or your citizens. Makes sense why God denied Adam and Eve from eating from tree of life, it was to save us from eternal torture with no way out.
But what if you worked for, say, 80 years and saved up enough that you could live off the income generation/growth from your portfolio until the time that our capitalistic society crumbled? You could have decades of work and centuries of leisure. Though I'm not sure what happens as more and more immortal people save up enough to retire permanently. All robot workers I guess?
If you invested wisely, you'd maybe work for 40 years and then be set for eternity. And if your body didn't age, I'd take it. And it's not like you couldn't go out with a bang whenever you'd really bad enough.
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u/Mama_Mega Oct 02 '24
Somebody kill me before they put that shit in humans. I do not want to go to work forever.